Markets / Products
The manufacturers of aluminium tubes and aerosol cans are satisfied overall with their deliveries to the German market in 2022.
Despite a small dip in deliveries in Q3 2022, down just 0,3 % at 237,800 t year-on-year, the 9-month performance is still 0,4 % ahead of the previous year.
Constellium is supplying aluminium auto body sheet for the all-new Maserati Grecale SUV.
Company
In response to reduced market demand for aluminium billets in Europe, Hydro has decided to partially curtail aluminium production at Hydro Karmøy and Hydro Husnes in Norway.
Industry
From 27 to 29 September 2022, ALUMINIUM will open its doors at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre.
Aluminium foil
The first half of 2022 saw stability return to deliveries of foil for containers and technical applications.
Associations
The European tube market was relatively robust in the first half of 2022.
Recycling
Novelis will showcase its new laminated aluminium surfaces for beverage can ends at ALUMINIUM 2022 in Düsseldorf at the end of September.
Aluminium demand in North America (US and Canada) grew 6.6 % in the first half of 2022.
Deliveries of aluminium tubes and aerosol cans to the German market still developed satisfactorily in the first half of 2022.
Investment
Packaging manufacturer Canpack S.A. plans to increase its manufacturing capacity of aluminium beverage cans with a new production facility in Brazil.
Rio Tinto and Ford Motor have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly develop more sustainable and secure supply chains for battery and low-carbon materials to be used in Ford vehicles.
The EU Commission has announced it will not prolong the 9-month suspension of definitive anti-dumping duties on Chinese aluminium flat-rolled products.
Foundry
In the European foundry industry, there is again a slight optimism about the economic development in the second half of 2022.
With an 86 % increase, SMS group almost doubled its order intake to reach EUR 3.5bn in the 2021 business year, recording the highest level in ten years.
The first quarter of 2022 saw strong domestic demand offset a continuing decline in exports for European aluminium foil deliveries.
Austrian Amag reports a record result for Q1 2022 and expects high uncertainties for the rest of the year.
The European aluminium industry is suffering from high energy prices and needs competitive prices to secure its future.
The UK’s aluminium packaging recycling rate was a record 68 % in 2021, with more than 156,000 t collected for recycling (a 3 % rise year-on-year).
Novelis is investing more than USD30m to build a new continuous annealing line at its plant in Plettenberg-Ohle, Germany.
